Large relativistic effects in molecular properties of the hydride of superheavy element 111

  • Michael Seth*
  • , Peter Schwerdtfeger
  • , Michael Dolg
  • , Knut Faegri
  • , Bernd A. Hess
  • , Uzi Kaldor
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Relativistic and electron correlation contributions in the hydride of the recently discovered superheavy element 111 were studied using ab-initio methods within different relativistic approaches. Relativistic effects decrease the (111)H bond distance by 0.42 Å. As a result of this large bond contraction, the bond distance of (111)H (1.51 Å) is comparable to that of the hydride of its lighter congener AuH (1.52 Å), but below that of AgH (1.60 Å). The dissociation energy is relativistically increased by approximately 1.2 eV and the stretching force constant is more than quadrupled from 1.1 mdyn/Å at the nonrelativistic level to 5.0 mdyn/Å at the relativistic level.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)461-465
Number of pages5
JournalChemical Physics Letters
Volume250
Issue number5-6
DOIs
StatePublished - 8 Mar 1996

Funding

Funders
European Science Foundation
University of Auckland
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development

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